AUHistoryHint

[Comedian2004]

What is AUHistoryHint?

A new top secret program that I have been working on and if I am treated right, I will release it to the public soon.

What does it do?

You run the program at anytime of the season. It digs through your player's history files and looks for newsworthy items, such as a player's 3000th career hit, a no-hitter, a 5 hit game, a career ending injury, player of the week/month awards. Now, it just does grab items for the particular year for certain items. For instance, for 5 hit games, it will just grab items from this year. However, for no-hitters it will grab them from any year. It also grabs major contract signings, over a certain amount, it will grab it.

Then it goes searching for more information. It looks at this season and grabs this information: (Note, the minimum values are configurable)

It grabs stuff like:

If a team makes 5 or more errors in a game.
If a team scores 20+ runs in a game.
If a team gets 25+ hits in a game.
If a game goes more than 19 innings.

I am digging for more information that would be cool to display. I have a few surprises up my short sleeves.

You can also will be able to configure it to use the almanac or yearly CSV dumps to grab information. You will also be able to tell what information to use, so, if you are in April, you would want to use last years data, but once you get some games in this year, you run it again and you have updated information.

Right now, it takes about 5 seconds to gather the data in my test league.

Now, what does it do with this information?

Ah, good question. It collects it all and replaces the hints.txt file with it. So, as you are playing the game, you get hints related to YOUR league. Of course, if you switch leagues, you would want to run the program again to generate one for that league.

A Beta version of this program will be available soon, but the beta version of it will JUST be available to people that have signed up for my newsletter shown in my signature. Sorry, no Mac version.

[Comedian2004]

And an early screen shot for your viewing pleasure.

[Kelric]

This is going to be awesome.

[Comedian2004]

More screenshots showing the tips in action:

[Comedian2004]

And one more:

[Steve Kuffrey]

Looks great...

[Powderguy]

Whoa, this looks awesome!

[Comedian2004]

Just added some more cool tidbits.

Games where a pitcher balked more than twice, thew more than 4 WPs, shows what pitcher in what game allowed the most fly ball outs and what pitcher in what game allowed the most ground out outs in one game.

I just found a game where Halladay allowed 5 hits, 5 runs without getting anyone out. Then Leiter came in and pitched 8 innings of 2 hit ball with 2 walks. He had 20 ground outs with 1 fly out. 1 double play. They lost 5-2.

It also reports what game where a pitcher threw the most pitches in one game.

Remember, this is for the current season, so it is really cool to see stuff about your league in the tips. Even the SO AND SO WON PLAYER OF THE WEEK is cool, as it lets you know who has been hot.

[Rangersfan]

Thanks a lot man. This game would not be the same without all the fabulous utilitys you create for the ootp community.

Keep up the good work.

[Khrog]

Now this one is definitely something that I can get into having...I was extremely bored with the default ones

[Comedian2004]

I just added the current longest streaks. So, you will see a tip like, 'Reggie Smith currently has a 32 game hitting streak. This is the longest streak in the league at this time.'

However, of course, this is only as accurate as your last CSV dump.

What I do, is when I exit the game, I do a CSV dump. A complete dump. It only takes 10 seconds or so. Then, before I enter the game, I run my program and ta da, I have a cool tips.

I will dig for some more off the wall type of information, maybe look into the leaderboard file or even the contract file and display some of the leaders or the top 5 salaries...

During the week, I will stop adding features and add the toots and whistles, which is making it look pretty and add some error trappings.

I will be releasing a version sometime this week to the subscribers of my newsletter. So, see my signature to join the list. BTW, I share the e-mail addresses with no one. You will get no spam from me or anyone else by signing up.

[Comedian2004]

Starting to have some fun digging.... here is a segment of the hint file with some new stuff that it dug up. This is a historical league that is in 2002.

On April 15, 2002 Sammy Sosa won the ML NL Player of the Week Award.
On September 24, 1998 Craig Biggio Scores his 1000th career run!
On September 04, 2000 Craig Biggio collects his 2000th career hit!
On April 10, 2002 Texas Rangers made 5 errors. GameID= 119
On May 29, 2002 Houston Astros made 5 errors. GameID= 780
On June 24, 2002 San Diego Padres played 20 innings at San Francisco Giants : A total of 12 runs were scored and a total of 37 hits were recorded. GameID= 1126
On June 27, 2002 Florida Marlins made 5 errors. GameID= 1164
On March 26, 2002 Baltimore Orioles made 5 errors. GameID= 2594
On March 24, 2002 Milwaukee Brewers made 5 errors. GameID= 2772
In game # 360 Detroit Tigers scored 10 runs in the 6th inning.
In game # 1559 Anaheim Angels scored 11 runs in the 1st inning.
In game # 2724 Baltimore Orioles scored 10 runs in the 2nd inning.
In game #103 Albert Belle knocked in 7 runs.
In game #823 Jose Canseco knocked in 7 runs.
In game #451 Joey Cora knocked in 8 runs.
In game #902 J.D. Drew knocked in 7 runs.
In game #31 Andy Fox was hit by the pitch 3 times.
In game #1319 Alex Gonzalez went down on strikes 5 times.
In game #1442 Corey Koskie knocked in 7 runs.
In game #815 Edgar Martinez was walked 5 times.
In game #1175 Mo Vaughn knocked in 7 runs.
In game #321 Jason Phillips was hit by the pitch 3 times.
In game #1283 Antonio Perez went down on strikes 5 times.
In game #220 Reed Johnson was hit by the pitch 3 times.
In game #979 Roger Clemens threw 176 pitches. He lost the game.
In game #451 Jason Johnson threw 185 pitches. He lost the game.
In game #871 Brian Moehler threw 148 pitches. He did win the game.
In game #1423 Julian Tavarez threw 145 pitches. He lost the game.
In game #956 Bobby Jones allowed 19 fly outs. This is the most all season in one game by a pitcher. He allowed 3 ground outs.
In game #854 Kevin Tapani allowed 21 ground outs. This is the most all season in one game by a pitcher. He allowed 2 fly outs.
In game #1000 Montreal Expos were shut out, but had 13 hits. This is the record for most hits and NO runs this season.
Jay Bell currently has a 11 game hitting streak. Longest in the league.
Todd Helton currently has a 9 game scoring streak. Longest in the league.
Mike Cameron currently has a 5 game RBI streak. Longest in the league.
Geoff Jenkins currently has a 3 game HR streak. Longest in the league.
Antonio Osuna currently has a 25 game SAVE streak. Longest in the league.
Esteban Loaiza currently has a 5 game WIN streak. Longest in the league.
Eric Milton currently has a 12 game UNDEFEATED streak. Longest in the league.
Brad Woodall currently has a 5 game LOSING streak. Longest in the league.
In game #576 both teams combined for 5 hits. This is the lowest total all season for total hits for both teams in one game. Amazing!
Right Handed Batters=472 Left Handed Batters=239 Switch Hitters=130 Right Handed Pitchers=621 Left Handed Pitchers=264
The oldest player in the league is Wade Boggs, 44 years old. The youngest player is Edwin Jackson at 18 years old. The average age is 28 years old.

[ashantewarrier]

I can't wait to see this released. Thanks for your efforts and programs. I for one use your programs and hope that you continue to release them.

[Comedian2004]

I added a 'Special Team' function. This function allows you to pick a special team (I may add multiple teams), and it will dig extra information up for this team. The 1st extra information I added was the longest home winning streak for said team all season. Also the away winning streak. Next I add the longest winning streak over all for the season for said team and then do the losing streaks. I also plan on adding more stuff about the team, like most hits in a game, most runs, walks, k's, etc. Little tidbits of information about your team and it's players.

The beta has been released to people that have subscribed to my newsletter.

[Comedian2004]

Added a BUNCH more things.

Some are:

Games where a player got 3+ IBB
Games where a player got 5+ walks
Oldest player in the league - Youngest player in the league
Highest personality rating (all personality ratings divided by 6) very interesting
Game with LEAST number of hits for teams combined
League position breakdown - 1B=69 players 2B=71, etc...
RHB, LHB, SHB break down for league, also RHP/LHP for pitchers
Fattest player, skinnest player
current streaks are all added
List of players turned coach
Tons more!!

In a test fictional league, the program generated using the default settings - 757 entries!!

I also added some more critera, like not showing salary information.
Added the ability to hide the results while in the program, so the hints will be more of a surprise

I plan on releasing the program this weekend to the public.

[Comedian2004]

I decided to release it today so I can start getting some feedback on it.

http://www.planetootp.com/AUHistoryHint/default.htm

Make sure you use IE to install the program. Once installed, you can run it from your START menu in Windows. It will update automatically when I update the program.

Basically, do a CSV dump from the game and run the program, pick a league and then hit START. Wait a few minutes and watch the fun display. The results will be displayed. You can check the box to hide the result so the hints will be a surprise.

There are a few parameters you can set to alter the results, with more to come.

Please give me some feedback on the program!

[falkonisback]

You're download link doesn't seem to work. It brings me to the install page and when I click the install button, it is a dead link. Am I missing something?

[Comedian2004]

Are you using Firefox? You have to go there with IE...

[falkonisback]

I do have IE. The most recent version too.

[Comedian2004]

Click on START and then copy and paste in there and click OK

%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework

Look at the folders and see what the highest number is. It should be 3.0 or higher. If it is not, you need to install MS framework 3.0 on your computer.

You can download and install 3.0 at this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

MS Framework 3.0 is required for the application to run. If you have your Windows completely updated with the latest patches, (COMPLETELY), then it should be installed.